Belkin N wireless

I bought a new Belkin N wireless router, hooked it up, set up the security,
it required 10 numbers in 5 fields of 2 numbers each for the
authentification, I followed the directions and router seems to work great.
I tried connecting my laptop to the router but the authentification number
is 1 field of however many characters you want. No matter how I enter the 10
numbers it can not authenticate the network.

Any suggestions?

Routing example: NN|NN|NN|NN|NN
Laptop example: ________________
Confirm ________________

your laptop may not have this type of encryption, just a guess.
"Chuck" <bikeyburd@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I bought a new Belkin N wireless router, hooked it up, set up the security,
>it required 10 numbers in 5 fields of 2 numbers each for the
>authentification, I followed the directions and router seems to work great.
> I tried connecting my laptop to the router but the authentification number
> is 1 field of however many characters you want. No matter how I enter the
> 10 numbers it can not authenticate the network.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Routing example: NN|NN|NN|NN|NN
> Laptop example: ________________
> Confirm ________________
>
>
>

Chuck wrote:
> I bought a new Belkin N wireless router, hooked it up, set up the security,
> it required 10 numbers in 5 fields of 2 numbers each for the
> authentification, I followed the directions and router seems to work great.
> I tried connecting my laptop to the router but the authentification number
> is 1 field of however many characters you want. No matter how I enter the 10
> numbers it can not authenticate the network.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Routing example: NN|NN|NN|NN|NN
> Laptop example: ________________
> Confirm ________________
>
It sounds as though you're using 64 bit WEP encryption. Don't use WPA2
instead. WEP is insecure, easy to break and sometimes difficult to set
up. Try WPA2-PSK using at least a 24 character phrase with mixed letters
and numbers and upper and lower case.

"Chuck" <bikeyburd@yahoo.com> hath wroth:

>I bought a new Belkin N wireless router,

Belkin makes 4 or 5 different "N" routers. Which one? Extra credit
for the hardware version (on the serial number tag) and the firmware
version.

>hooked it up, set up the security,
>it required 10 numbers in 5 fields of 2 numbers each for the
>authentification,

OK, that's 64bit WEP encryption. Don't use that. WEP is not very
secure and easily cracked. Use WPA or WPA2 encryption instead with a
long pass phrase.

>I followed the directions and router seems to work great.

Argh. You've read the manual? That takes all the fun out of trial
and error setups. You must have been desperate.

>I tried connecting my laptop to the router but the authentification number
>is 1 field of however many characters you want. No matter how I enter the 10
>numbers it can not authenticate the network.

Well, it should work if you entered the string in Hexidecimal. Don't
bother trying to make it work. Just use WPA or WPA2 encryption.

Incidentally, authentication is something else. Make sure you're
using WPA-Personal or WPA-PSK (pre-shared key) and *NOT*
WPA-Enterprise or WPA-RADIUS. My guess(tm) is that you have it setup
to look for a RADIUS server, which is not used in your setup.

>Any suggestions?

Only read the manual AFTER you get it working to see if you missed
anything. If the product were any good, it wouldn't need a manual.

>Routing example: NN|NN|NN|NN|NN
>Laptop example: ________________
>Confirm ________________

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Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

It was actually worse than reading the manual:), I called tech support and
got this Indian fellow that told me to use 64 bit wep encryption. After
reading this group's response I went to WPA-PSK and re-entered my
authentification code everything worked great.

Thanks you to everyone.

Chuck


"Jeff Liebermann" <jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote in message
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> "Chuck" <bikeyburd@yahoo.com> hath wroth:
>
>>I bought a new Belkin N wireless router,
>
> Belkin makes 4 or 5 different "N" routers. Which one? Extra credit
> for the hardware version (on the serial number tag) and the firmware
> version.
>
>>hooked it up, set up the security,
>>it required 10 numbers in 5 fields of 2 numbers each for the
>>authentification,
>
> OK, that's 64bit WEP encryption. Don't use that. WEP is not very
> secure and easily cracked. Use WPA or WPA2 encryption instead with a
> long pass phrase.
>
>>I followed the directions and router seems to work great.
>
> Argh. You've read the manual? That takes all the fun out of trial
> and error setups. You must have been desperate.
>
>>I tried connecting my laptop to the router but the authentification number
>>is 1 field of however many characters you want. No matter how I enter the
>>10
>>numbers it can not authenticate the network.
>
> Well, it should work if you entered the string in Hexidecimal. Don't
> bother trying to make it work. Just use WPA or WPA2 encryption.
>
> Incidentally, authentication is something else. Make sure you're
> using WPA-Personal or WPA-PSK (pre-shared key) and *NOT*
> WPA-Enterprise or WPA-RADIUS. My guess(tm) is that you have it setup
> to look for a RADIUS server, which is not used in your setup.
>
>>Any suggestions?
>
> Only read the manual AFTER you get it working to see if you missed
> anything. If the product were any good, it wouldn't need a manual.
>
>>Routing example: NN|NN|NN|NN|NN
>>Laptop example: ________________
>>Confirm ________________
>
> --
> Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com
> 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
> Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
> Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558